Psychological difference, can or bottle. Even if you are a post modern Coke drinker, you are familiar with the iconic Coke bottle design. Objective difference between draft and bottle. Draft not always consistent in quality. Contemporary political/environmental bias against plastic bottles.

@mrentropy Your pet theory is confirmed, more or less. Coke will eat through cans and bottles if left to sit for a couple years perhaps longer for the cans, which are lined on the inside to prevent that sort of thing.@tirithalui You’re not getting dissolved plastics and can lining. Glass has a long history of safely containing even the most corrosive of compounds.

Coke out of a glass bottle defintely tasted better. i was around when Coke was in a glass bottle, back in the 50s. there was also a glass bottle of Coke in the liter size. i have some of those old bottles somewhere. the glass added no aftertaste to the drink. most of the corked caps seem to also keep the Coke fresher. some of these old Coke bottles are worth a fortune today. i have several.

@john65pennington
You tell me that there are no glass bottles with Coke sold anymore in the US?
In Greece they do, although they probably aren’t the same design as the ones you talk about, but from glass they are.

same goes with beer. especially imports. when they put heineken in a can it just aint the same as the bottle. not a big fan of heineken because the aftertaste is too wet and lingering. but to answer your question, the bottle tastes better because when we pour something, it’s in a glass—not a can. what would you ratehr drink tap water from? a can or a glass? you know?

Wrong Nullo. Coke is distributed in the US in 8 oz glass bottle six packs. I see them here all the time. I also see the 12 oz Mexican import bottles that everyone seeks out because they might be made with cane sugar instead of corn syrup. There are rumors that they sometimes use corn syrup, sometimes cane sugar, and sometimes both depending on what they can get their hands on. The label tends to be somewhat vague.
I also sometimes see the old 1 liter glass bottles in shops.

I have to go to the store today, so I think I’ll check on glass bottle availability. I know my grocery store sells the Mexican glass bottle Cokes in the fridges, but I’m not sure about the glass bottle American six-packs.

I know you can get American made sugar cane Dr Pepper in a bottle, if you’re very, very lucky.

@john65pennington I wish I could. I know someone that bought a case of the stuff and ended up with the runs. I would hope the water is filtered but in this guys case that doesn’t appear to be the case. Of course it could have been a coincidence.